Could you put this up? Thanx ~Buruma

**********Chapter 23**********

When Videl woke the next morning she had a terrible headache. Oh, man…my head hurts…I shouldn't have done that…I wonder if Juuhachi and Buruma are sick too. Videl rolled over and tried to go back to sleep but the pounding in her head wouldn't allow her. So she got up and got herself some aspirin and breakfast. When she was done eating she took a cup of coffee and started to read the comics, but a bright pink note on the fridge caught her attention. It read:

To Videl,

Hi Videl I hope you had a great time last night. I still don't know about that Gohan guy though…anyway I had to go to work early. Your friend Buruma called. That's all.

Dad

Videl raised her eyebrows, Whoa dad never does this, well I better call Buruma. Videl reached for the phone and dialed Buruma's number.

Ring! Ring!

"Mushi, Mushi, Buruma speaking."

"Hi Buruma, it's Videl, you called earlier?"

"Yep, my head hurts, does yours?"

"Like a bitch, still."

"Yerp, anyway I was so rudely woken up by Vegeta, he just couldn't understand why I was screaming at him to go way, because my head hurt. Guys. Sheesh."

"Yeah sheesh, how rude." Videl said and giggled. "Ow" Videl whined clutching her head.

"The reason he was over here was because he needed to talk to me. When I had finally pulled my self together we talked. He wants me to come live with him at Vegetasei, and he said that you had already agreed to go with Gohan."

"Yeah I did. Are you going to go?"

"Yeah I want to, I asked my parents, they said since I am now an 'adult' I can chose for myself. I would really like to go."

"Then go."

"But what about Juuhachi?"

"Well we could come and visit her, besides she's got Kuririn."

"I know but I still feel guilty."

"Yeah I do to. Hey! We should have a party! Or a road trip to celebrate our leaving!"

"Yeah the road trip sounds fun! Should we invite the guys?"

"Yeah that sounds like fun. I'll call Juuhachi."

"When should we go?"

"Well, since we've graduated already, we should go as soon as possible."

"Ok, that sounds good I'll call Kuririn and ask the guys."

"Ok bye."

"Bye!"

Click!

Videl dialed Juuhachi's number and her Mother picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hi Juuhachi's mom. Hey before I ask Juuhachi do you think she could come on a road trip with me and Buruma?"

"A road trip? How long? Will there be any guys?" Videl didn't like to lie but she had to this time.

"Uh, a couple of weeks, and no boys."

"Well I guess she could go. You want me to get her?"

"Yes please."

"JUUHACHI!"

"I'm coming! Hello?"

"Hi Juuhachi, hey you want to come on a road trip with Buruma, me and the guys? Don't tell your mom about the guys part. I already asked her for you she said you could go if you wanted to, you know as kind of a get together before Buruma and I leave."

"So you guys are leaving?"

"Yeah,"

"I hoped you would change your minds, I guess not. But the road trip sounds great, when do we leave?"

"As soon as possible, I guess. Maybe a day after tomorrow?"

"Ok I'll start packing. See ya later."

"Bye I'll call you tomorrow to see about bringing food."

"Ok bye."

"Bye!"

Click!

Videl ran up stairs, she didn't care what her dad would say she would go anyway. So she went up stairs and began to pack.

Buruma was talking to Kuririn about the Trip and he didn't seem reluctant to go so she was happy that she would spend a week with her best friends. She packed and decided to take one of their giant corporation vans and get it ready for the trip. She grabbed a few capsules and loaded them with tents, fire making tools, lanterns, a hammer, a shower, and a first aid kit. She figured that Videl, Juuhachi and the others would like to come along to get food. She set a few capsules out for the food and the luggage, too.

*FLASH* It's now the next day and the group is at the grocery store.

"What do you think we should get?" asked Videl.

"I don't know I guess whatever you want." Buruma said shrugging. Gohan slipped in quietly behind Buruma, grabbed her and dropped her into a basket. "Hey! What are you doing?"

"Come on Vegeta, aren't you going to save your girlfriend?" said Gohan with a smile. And with that he raced off down one aisle, Vegeta whipped his head around and sped after Buruma pushing his own cart. Kuririn and Juuhachi shrugged, Juuhachi got in her own basket and Kuririn pushed her around gathering food for their journey. Mean while Vegeta was gaining on Gohan and Buruma was screaming with delight. They chased each other around, Gohan switching with Kuririn to confuse and frustrate Vegeta. Videl on the other hand had a shopping cart and was filling it with food and snacks. The manager of the store stopped Gohan in his tracks and Vegeta crashed into him.

"What do you kids think you are doing?" the manager said tapping his foot.

"I'll have you know I am a Prince and I can do what ever I please." Vegeta glared at the manager, but Buruma stepped in between them after having one heck of a time trying to get out of the shopping cart.

"Excuse us sir," she whipped a glare at Gohan. "We'll be good, we just need to get food for a trip we are going to take."

"Well I pardon you THIS time, don't linger." The manager turned away and Juuhachi and Buruma couldn't help but giggle at the fun they just had.

"Hey where's Videl?" Gohan asked.

"I'm right here, you guys are so juvenile. I've got all our essentials so all we need is the snacks!" with that Gohan, Kuririn and Vegeta ran around the store grabbing almost every snack imaginable. They met up with the girls at the check out counter. They put their stuff on the conveyer belt and it piled up almost to the ceiling. Buruma paid for it using her dad's grocery card and they were outta there. Vegeta and Gohan got stuck with pushing the carts.

"Stop!" Yelled Buruma. They screeched to stop.

"What?" both Gohan and Vegeta said slightly muffled from the loads of food.

"Look you guys," Buruma pointed to their van. "the shopping carts they weren't there before." The shopping carts totally surrounded the van. A slight breeze brought another cart wheeling down towards their van. They all looked in it's direction as it came to a stop right before hitting the door.

"I swear they've got a mind of their own." Mused Juuhachi as another one wheeled itself over to their van.

"I bet it's that manager, I bet he's got them under his control." Said Videl.

"Or they could be possessed." Buruma said.

"We should get out of here." Said Kuririn.

"Huh?" Came the muffled voices of Vegeta and Gohan.

"Come on slowly now you don't want to tick them off." Amazingly they had left the back of the van uncovered. They unloaded the bags when Kuririn broke off with one of the carts to put away he noticed that something was definitely not right.

"Uh…guys? The carts…" everyone turned and found that all the carts had surrounded them.

"Ok now I'm freaked out." Buruma said.

"Uh huh, me too." Videl and Juuhachi said. Vegeta eyed the carts carefully and decided to scatter them. He stepped away from the others and traveled out a ways. The carts followed him he walked faster and soon the carts were chasing him. The other people of the parking lot dropped their things and watched as a phenomenon unfolded before their very eyes.

"What the hell?" Vegeta stopped and decided to just take them out. He stuck his arm out and a gold blast emitted from his hand and descended onto the pack of shopping carts. The carts tried to run away, their squeaky wheels sounding like shrieks of pain as they scattered. Buruma shuddered and quickly got in the car, the others did like wise. Vegeta made it back to the van as another pack of shopping carts came rushing at them.

"Oh my gosh! There's more!" Screamed Videl, she grabbed on to Gohan and buried her face into his arm. Buruma who was at the wheel screamed and accelerated, the carts squeaking after them. The other people in the parking lot left in a great hurry.

"Evil shopping carts!" Yelled Kuririn. Buruma zoomed out of the parking lot vowing never to go to the grocery store again.

"That was really weird…I don't think I'll ever look at shopping carts the same." Said Videl.

"Me neither." Agreed Juuhachi. Vegeta was sitting in the front seat with his arms crossed.

"Why do we even have to go on this stupid trip? I have to get back to my planet." Vegeta whined. Buruma put her hand on his arm.

"I know but before I can go with you I need to spend some time with my friend Juuhachi." Vegeta pouted and kept quiet for the time being. They went to their houses and gathered up their belongings and headed out. Kuririn was driving and Juuhachi was in the front seat. Videl and Gohan were making out in the back seat and Vegeta and Buruma were in the middle seat leaning on each other. All their camping gear was in the back, which consisted of a box of capsules. They headed out to the desert and came upon a group of cars.

"Hey look at that." Kuririn said while looking out the front window obviously intrigued at what he saw.

"Wow I wonder what made that." Juuhachi mused. Vegeta looked out the window and smirked.

"I did that." He said nonchalantly. A giant hole had been blown into the ground and the dune was sliced in half. Juuhachi's eyes went wide.

"Wow, Buruma hang on to that one, he could be a real life saver." Buruma smiled and hugged her tiny alien man like a doll.

"Buruma…" Vegeta whined.

"Oh come on I know you like it." She hugged him tighter and kissed him. He gave in a kissed her back.

"Hey do you mind if we stop and take a look at the damage?" Asked Kuririn.

"Yeah I want to see it too." Said Buruma.

"Whatever." Replied Vegeta. Videl and Gohan were left to themselves as the rest got out of the car and proceeded to stand with the crowd that had formed there. The crowd was whispering words of astonishment. "Wow what a phenomenon." "That is way cool!" "Look the hole is perfectly round."

"I wouldn't want to mess with the guy who did this." Buruma said into the crowd to see what kind of effect it would have. Vegeta beamed with pride at the remark. Kuririn and Juuhachi shook their heads and continued to gaze at the dune.

"What? A guy did this?" "Yeah right" "I'm getting out of here, what if he's still around?" "Cool! I want to be able to do that!" Most of the people thought it was cool but still some others were hesitant and left. The group got back into the van and noticed that Videl and Gohan weren't there.

"Gawd! Those two are so annoying! Where are they?" Juuhachi asked. Vegeta felt Gohan's power outside on the dune with a weaker one.

"They're on the dune. I'll go get them." Vegeta flew to the dune much to the amazement of the lookie loos on the road. Vegeta spotted them on the top surveying the land.

"…and this is were Vegeta almost killed me…"

"Yep that's right, now get going, you and Videl are agitating the others." Vegeta spat narrowing his eyes on Gohan. They returned to the van with little trouble and Videl was assigned to driving duty. Gohan sat in the passenger seat.

"Ooo I'm hungry can we break out the snacks?" Asked Gohan.

"Sure!" Buruma said. She ducked into the back and pulled out a capsule labeled snacks. She tossed it to Gohan but Vegeta caught it instead.

"Vegeta! Gohan asked for them."

"So."

"You are so insolent sometimes." She threw another one to Gohan and this time he caught it. They sat in silence until a favorite song of the whole group came on.

"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy, caught in a land slide, no escape from reality, open your eyes look up to the skies and see…" Buruma sung while being joined in with by the others. Vegeta groaned and sunk back into his seat fearing that the song would go on forever. The group sung it with perfect accuracy.

"…send a bolt of lightening very, very frightening me! Galileo!" sung Buruma

"Galileo!" sung Kuririn in a low voice.

"Galileo!" sung Juuhachi in a high voice.

"Galileo Figuero" Sung Videl.

"Magnificoooooo!" Sung Gohan joined in by the others. Vegeta was cringing because of the next part that he remembered all too well.

"He's just a poor boy from a poor family… easy come easy go will you let me go?" Sung Buruma.

"No! we will not let you go!" Sung the rest.

"Let her go!" Sung…Vegeta! He gave in and decided to play their little game.

"We will not let her go!"

"Let her go!"

"We will not let you go!"

"Let me go!" Sung Buruma.

"Never, never, never let you goooo."

"….Never let me go!"

"No, no, no, no, no!" Sung the rest.

"What has the devil put aside for me, for me, for me, for me, for meeeee!" sung Buruma. This is the part they have all been waiting for. The song burst into rock music interlude and they all banged their heads around, their hair wildly swishing in the air. This Vegeta did not participate in because he would loose his reputation and you all know we can't let that happen…

~ hahaha! *Evil smirk* what am I going to do to poor Vegeta? Who knows you'll just have to tune in next time with Buruma!